Ming attacks

Via Chicken Yoghurt Sir Ming was able to get a solid hit it to (dour) Gordon over his lack of respect for civil liberties, where Cameron could only settle for Brown dodging his questions over the EU not-a-constitution treaty

[I]t was left to the much-derided Ming Campbell to make the best intervention about the prime minister’s statement on security. “Consensus,” he said, “cannot be achieved at the cost of principle … of course the public has a right to security, but that includes security from the power of the state.”

There’s no answer to that, and he didn’t get one.